Forty years ago this month, Robert Allen wrote about the ‘European Con Year’ - the year environmental conservation practices were bleak
… The Ecologist December 1970: The con in conservation Vi Nguyen | 7th December 2010 Other European Con Year Conservation Environment Food And Farming … ‘European Con Year’ - the year environmental conservation practices were bleak European …
Show the government you support the creation of a marine conservation network to protect the UK's threatened sea life
… you support the creation of a marine conservation network to protect the UK's … One solution to this problem is through conservation areas and protected zones to … UK Marine Act plan to establish 127 Marine Conservation Zones. Yet recent government …
We can transform the British landscape, and the longevity of our economy, if we let nature take the driving seat.
… Rewilding: transforming conservation methods Sophie Johnson | 4th November 2020 | Comment Rewilding Conservation Food And Farming Brexit Global … and are indifferent to its loss. Using conservation methods led by isolation and …
Jordans cereals founder Bill Jordan says his company's method of farming can feed the world and safeguard biodiversity
… Bill Jordan has spent years promoting Conservation Grade farming , a system of … more farmers and manufacturers to start using Conservation Grade farming, his fears about GM … Tom Levitt: Why did you start using Conservation Grade farming? Bill Jordan: When …
Ecologist writer Luke Dale-Harris questions the ability of Natura 2000 to work as an effective environmental regulator
… The hidden conservation costs of renewable energy Luke … | 27th March 2013 Comment Environment Conservation Renewables RSPB Biodiversity bird … as a cause for shame. It is this that drives conservation. But shame and morality are, of …
On the one side stand half a million poor farmers, desperate to find land for more crops. On the other, a patch of once-extensive forest that is the area's ecological lynchpin. In between, one woman
… Otto | 25th August 2009 News Natural World Conservation Rwana Gishwati Chimpanzees Food … As programme coordinator for the Gishwati Conservation Project, it's up to her to … their own survival. In response, the Gishwati Conservation Project has been forced to set up …
A new carbon 'tax and dividend' climate strategy would strengthen our economy, reduce regulation, help working class Americans, shrink government, promote national security, and reduce emissions, write eight senior US conservative politicians, financiers and academics. Now Republican control of all branches of the US government makes it an opportunity not to miss!
… Chairman of the Executive Committee of Conservation International. With the privilege …
Researchers claim the benefits of combining conservation and food production through organic farming are not enough to make up for the drop in yields
… Conservation and food production should be … Researchers claim the benefits of combining conservation and food production through … demand for increased food production, conservation management should be separated …
Just when the UK's government might want to be boosting its green credentials it has chosen to do the precise opposite, writes Steffen Böhm: giving tax breaks and subsidies to oil and gas, while attacking renewables and energy efficiency. We must unite to oppose these destructive and short-sighted policies
Whatever happened to the 'greenest ever' Conservative Party? Steffen Böhm | 11th July 2015 Comment UK Energy Fossil Fuels Oil Renewables Politics Transport north-sea-oil-rig-cut.jpg Just when the …
A new opinion poll of 2,000 adults reveals more than two thirds of the public support renewable energy schemes where projects are undertaken at a community level and local people receive financial benefit. The support even extends to wind and solar farms close to people's homes.
Massive support for community renewable energy Oliver Tickell | 6th September 2016 News Energy Renewables Society Green Economy westmill-cut.jpg A new opinion poll of 2,000 adults reveals more than …
An array of solar panels on a Chiswick side street, facing a brewery wall, constitute a threat to the quality of life of future generations, according to the council and a planning inspector. Paula Owen begs to differ, and wonders - exactly what kind of mushroom have they been smoking?
… that is, most fittingly, designated a 'conservation area'. James himself, however, … - it is, truly, a building of no external conservation merit whatsoever. The side wall … the streets in the rest of the surrounding conservation area. A 'monstrous affront to …
Bottom trawling could be prohibited in four English offshore marine protected areas, including Dogger Bank.
… to the recovery of a rich array of wildlife, conservationists have said. Bottom trawling … on Monday. The move to properly protect the conservation areas would help preserve … Sandy Luk, chief executive of the Marine Conservation Society, said action rather than …
Competition for land, water and energy are increasing, exacerbated by climate change and a growing population. But why does the Food and Agriculture Organisation now believe indigenous people could provide a solution? Peter Giovannini investigates
… related, fields of development. Biodiversity conservation In the last two decades … UNEP, UNESCO and IUCN. As a consequence the conservation community has started to look at … than as obstacles to, the implementation of conservation projects. Luisa Maffi, co-founder …
Tidal lagoons could generate 8% of the UK's electricity, writes Stephen Tindale, and go on doing so for 120 years to come. With the Hinkley C nuclear project looking ever more dicey, and with promises to shut down coal fired generation by 2025, a promised new tidal lagoon In Swansea Bay would come in very useful. So why hasn't the government included it in the Energy Bill?
… tribute to one of the founders of the UK conservation movement. The Wildlife and … for low carbon energy production" , says its Conservation Director, Dr Debbie Pain. "We … conditions. It is engaging with a range of conservation groups in order identify …
Monkfish, skates and rays, crab and lobster from some UK fisheries are among 14 kinds of sea life joining those with a red rating from the Marine Conservation Society (MCS).
… | 6th April 2022 | News Fishing Marine Conservation Society Vegan Good Fish Guide … those with a red rating from the Marine Conservation Society (MCS). A range of fish … have been added to a food “avoid” list as conservationists warn of the urgent need to …
As the governing conservative party lurches ever further to the right, writes Kyla Mandel, it feels like UKIP has already won the election - six months before it's even happened. Tory ministers are already executing UKIP policies, with their ignorant but implacable hatred of renewable energy in all its forms.
Britain's 'energy policy' - carried out by Tories, made by UKIP? Kyla Mandel DeSmog UK | 17th November 2014 News UK Renewables Politics Fracking Energy wind-turbines-wales-cut.jpg As the governing …
Environmental group WWF has faced a barrage of protest for sitting at the table with the likes of Monsanto and Cargill. Has it gone a step too far to appease the multinationals?
… Cargill, Bunge to Unilever, Shell, BP, Conservation International, The Nature … rivers, biodiversity and fragile ecosystem conservation. It stresses the importance of … respecting legal limits on deforestation, all conservation areas and international treaties …
Making Ghana’s cocoa sector more sustainable isn’t the easiest of tasks but for the Louis Bolk Institute’s Christian Mensah that’s all part of the job. Ruth Styles caught up with him to find out how he’s doing it
… coordination.’ RS: Do you envision a role for conservation groups as well? CM: ‘Conservationists have always been part and … the country. At present we are working with conservationists to implement projects in …
Are you suffering from cognitive dissonance? You should be, writes Oliver Tickell. After the most ferocious attack a UK government has ever mounted on the environment, David Cameron just claimed that his is the 'greenest government ever', as Amber Rudd proclaims her commitment to climate action. What's going on?
Buy Conservative! No other party washes greener Oliver Tickell | 24th July 2015 Comment Climate Change Energy Renewables Nuclear Politics cameron-green-tie-cut.jpg Are you suffering from cognitive …
Bird populations bounce back when farmers devote 10 per cent of their land to nature-friendly measures, a new study finds.
… Yasmin Dahnoun | 6th January 2023 | News Bird Conservation Wild Birds Sustainable Farming The Wildlife Trusts Conservation Food And Farming … pressing need to rapidly implement effective conservation interventions across the farmed …
We need to break down the perceived barrier between farming and the environment to restore the health of our soil and water - and of the human and non-human life they sustain. ELIZABETH WAINWRIGHT, a contributing editor to The Ecologist, argues we also need to better understand the connections between them
… or even conflict between the two. Conservation and community Not only does … increasing the standard and scale of conservation management in the area by … joint initiatives to solve them.” (And beyond conservation, these networks and dialogues …
The green washing of Theresa May’s Conservative government appears to have reached its end following a week of environmentally regressive policy announcements and the collapse of UK renewable energy investment, writes JOSEPH DUTTON
UK government greenwash fades as environmental policy goes backwards Joseph Dutton | 18th May 2018 News UK Fracking Brexit Renewables Theresa May Environment 17709961569_5a3a6daf4e_b.jpg The green …
One of Africa's last remaining tropical forests, Mabira is home to precious wildlife and is an eco tourist attraction. But it is now under threat from sugarcane production. Esther Nakkazi reports
… tropical forest Mabira forest is a core conservation area for critical biodiversity, a hub for ecological and environmental conservation, a habitat to many animal and … share the Nile downstream- Sudan and Egypt. Conservationists have warned that in the event …
Britain's estimated 40 million rabbits cost more than £260m a year in damage to crops, businesses and infrastructure, report says
… A DIFFERENCE How to get involved in wildlife conservation From joining campaigns groups to … the government’s environment watchdog NEWS Conservation and food production should be … Researchers claim the benefits of combining conservation and food production through …